Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.
More Quotes from Theodor Reik:
The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says, If you promise to behave yourself, you can come back in.Theodor Reik
He Freud often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.
Theodor Reik
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
Theodor Reik
Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish.
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We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.
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